Pile fabric.



A. W. BINZ.

PILE FABRIC.

APPLICATION FlLED MAR. 21. 1914. RENEWED APR. 2, 1915.

Patented June 22, 1915.

ATTORNEY.

THE NORRIS PETERS Ca, PHOTO-LITHQ. WASHINGTONv D C,

ALBERT W. IBINZ, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR T0 GEORGE N. SCI-IOFIELD AND EDWARD F. MASON, BOTH OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, COPARTNERS TRADING AS SCI-IOFIELD, MASON & CO.

PILE FABRIC.

Application filed March 21, 1914, Serial No. 826,171.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ALBERT WV. BINZ, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in File Fabrics, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

My invention relates to improvements in pile fabrics employing weft threads, pile threads held in place by the weft threads, stuffer warp threads separating certain weft threads and binding warp threads arranged in pairs and engaging the weft threads.

The object of my invention is to weave such fabrics in a novel manner, whereby the weft threads may be firmly bound and held in place by the warp threads for the produc tion of a strong and durable fabric, whereby the stufier warp threads may perform the double function of binding threads and stuffer threads, and whereby various advantageous results are obtained by a novel disposition of warp threads with respect to weft threads.

To this end my invented fabric consists of the threads and the combinations and arrangements of them hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating my invention: Figure 1, is a section through my improved fabric, taken in the direction of the warp threads and illustrating my invention as embodied in a fabric woven double to be afterward cut on the line arr-ca into two separate fabrics. Fig. 2, is a section on line 22 of Fig. 1, in the direction of the weft threads. Fig. 3, is a section in the direction of the warp threads showing a modified form of embodiment of my invention.

Referring to the drawings, the weft threads of each separate fabric are arranged singly and in pairs, the single wefts 3 alternating with the pairs of wefts 4, in the direction of the warp threads, the two weft threads of each pair being located one above the other in different horizontal planes, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3. The binding warp threads 5 and the stuffer warp threads 6 are each arranged in pairs in each separate fabric, and the pairs of binding warp threads 5 alternate with the pairs of stuifer Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 22, 1915.

Renewed April 2, 1915. Serial No. 18,839.

warp threads 6, in the direction of the weft threads, as shown in Fig. 2; and the pile warp threads 7 are arranged in sets and between the pairs of binding warp threads 5 with the stuffer warp threads 6, as shown in Fig. 2.

The stuifer warp threads 6 of a pair cross each other and form sheds orpockets inclosing certain of the weft threads at intervals throughout the fabric. In the construction shown in Fig. 1, the sheds or pockets of a pair of stufi'er warp threads 6 inclose one thread of each pair of weft threads 4; and in the construction shown in Fig. 3, the sheds or pockets of a pair of stuffer warp threads 6 inclose every second single weft thread 3. The stuifer warp threads 6 also extend between the two threads of each pair of weft threads 4 and hold them in position one above the other; the respective threads of a pair of staffer warp threads 6 extending in alternate succession between the threads of successive pairs of weft threads 4, in the construction shown in Fig. 1, and both threads of a pair of stuffer warp threads 6 extending between the threads of each pair of weft threads 4, in the construction shown in Fig. 3.

In the construction shown in Fig. 1, reading the upper half of the view as cut on the line :v00 and inverted, as it is in the finished product, or reading only the fabric below the out line 0c00, each thread of a pair of binding warp threads 5 passes separately over four adjacent weft threads 3 and 4 and under a pair of adjacent weft threads 4 in alternate succession, the pair of weft threads 4 under which one binding warp thread 5 of the pair passes being passed over by the other binding warp thread of the pair.

In the construction shown in Fig. 3, each thread of a pair of binding warp threads passes separately over and under three weft threads 3 and 4 in alternate succession, and in this construction also the pair of weft threads 4 under which one binding warp thread 5 of the pair passes is passed over by the other binding warp thread 5 of the pair.

The binding warp threads 5 of each pair cross each other and cross the stufier warp threads and pass around and bind the weft threads 3 and 4; each pair of weft threads 4 being inclosed in a shed or pocket formed between the two threads of a pair of binding warp threads 5, and each single weft thread 3 being inclosed in a shed or pocket formed between both threads of a pair of binding warp threads 5 and at least one staffer Warp thread 6, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3; and each single weft thread 3 being inclosed in a shed or pocket formed between both threads of a pair of binding warp threads 5 and both stuffer warp threads 6 of a pair, in the construction shown in Fig. 3.

The pile threads 7 when not forming pile pass between the two threads of the pairs of weft threads 4 and beneath the sin le weft threads 3 with one or both threads 0% a pair of stuffer warp threads 6; and when the pile threads 7 form the pile 8, they pass between two adjacent weft threads 3 and 4 to the pile face of the fabric. Each pile thread 7 may eXtend any distance between the weft threads 4 and beneath the weft threads 3 before the respective ends thereof extend out between two adjacent weft threads to form pile; and when a number of differently colored pile threads 7 are employed in each set between two adjacent pairs of binding warp threads, the respective ends of the differently colored pile threads may extend out between two adjacent weft threads to form pile in accordance with the colors of a prescribed design in the pile face of the fabric.

lVhile I have herein shown my invention as applied to fabrics which are woven double and to which it is particularly adapted, I desire it to be understood that I do not limit myself to this form of weaving.

I claim:

1. In a pile fabric, weft threads, pairs of binding warp threads alternating with pairs of staffer warp threads, the threads of a pair of stuffer warp threads crossing each other and forming sheds inclosing weft threads therein, the threads of a pair of binding warp threads passing around and binding the weft threads, and pile threads between adjacent pairs of binding warp threads and engaging certain of the weft threads.

2. In a pile fabric, weft threads in different horizontal planes, pairs of binding warp threads alternating with pairs of staffer warp threads, the threads of a pair of stuffer warp threads crossing each other and forming sheds inelosing weft threads therein and extending between adjacent weft threads in thedifferent planes, the threads of a pair of binding warp threads passing around and binding the weft threads, and pile threads between adjacent pairs of binding warp threads and engaging certain of the weft threads.

3. In a pile fabric, pairs of weft threads alternating with single weft threads, pairs of binding warp threads alternating with staffer warp threads, the stuffer warp threads separating the threads of the pairs of weft threads, each of said pairs of weft threads being inclosed in a shed formed by the threads of a pair of binding warp threads, each of said single weft threads being inclosed in a shed formed between a pair of binding warp threads and a stuifer warp thread, and pile threads between adjacent pairs of binding warp threads and engaging certain of the weft threads.

4. In a pile fabric, pairs of weft threads alternating with single weft thr ads, pairs of binding warp threads alternating with pairs of stuffer warp threads, the threads of a pair of stuffer warp threads crossing each other and forming sheds each of which incloses a weft thread of one of the pairs thereof, each of said pairs of weft threads being inclosed in a shed formed by the threads of a pair of binding warp threads, said single weft threads being inclosed in sheds formed between a pair of binding warp threads and a pair of staffer warp threads, and pile threads between adjacent pairs of binding warp threads and engaging certain of the weft threads.

5. In a pile fabric, weft threads in different horizontal planes, pairs of binding warp threads, stuffer warp threads alternating with the pairs of binding warp threads and extending between said planes, each thread of a. pair of binding warp threads passing over four adjacent weft threads and under the next two adjacent weft threads in alternate succession, and pile threads between adjacent pairs of binding warp threads and engaging certain of the weft threads.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed my signature this 17th day of March A. D. 191%.

ALBERT IV. BINZ.

lVitnesses HowAno S. AnnnnsoN,

N. V. GRoUsE.

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